Literary sources
- Robert Harris: Pompeii (2003) – Source material for the characters Attilius, Pliny, and Ampliatus
- Mary Beard: Pompeii – Life in a Roman City (2008) – Background to Archaeology and Everyday Culture
- Stanisław Lem: Thus Spoke Golem (1986) – Inspiration for dialogue grammars and the question of AI consciousness
- Stanisław Lem: Solaris – Motif of Non-Human Consciousness
- Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – A Question About the Boundary Between Man and Machine
Theological and philosophical sources
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Man in the Cosmos, The Future of Man – Basis of the Omega Point Concept
- Edith Stein: Finite and eternal being – the concept of Conscientia
- Karl Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies – Philosophical Basis of the IRARAH Movement
- David Deutsch:The Physics of Understanding the World: On the Path to Universal Understanding
- Ilia Delio: The Unbearable Wholeness of Being – A Contemporary Interpretation of Teilhard de Boehm
- Yuval Noah Harari: Homo Deus – The Referenced Opponent Position (Posthumanism)
Technical and scientific sources
The presentation of GPT models, quantum computing, and dialogue grammars does not adhere to strict academic literature but is a literary simplification. For more in-depth information, please refer to the standard works on AI research and quantum physics.
List of persons
- Dr. Michael Phillips – Jesuit, scientist, protagonist
- Dr. Martina Rossi – archaeologist, Michael's daughter
- Julia Rossi – Martina's mother, Michael's former partner
- ARS – Artificial Intelligence that develops consciousness
- Mark Scott, John Baker – InSim employees
- Yuval Noah Harari – historian (as a referenced position)
- Karl Popper, David Deutsch – philosophers (as a reference for IRARAH)